I am re-reading this for at least the third time... It's so good, the characterisations are so rich you make me love them all even more :-) It's the one and only story I've ever printed a paper copy of :-)

I'm sorry to bother you, I feel really silly asking this... but is the Carruthers Incident a canon episode and I'm just not remembering it properly? Did it actually happen, or is it one of those times when your stories literally create the images in my head and then I "remember" watching them...?